This is the version from 16 Lovers Lane, but last weekend I bought the new Go-Betweens live DVD/CD, That Striped Sunlight Sound, and I actually watched the DVD. I don't generally watch concert performances, because I don't find them all that interesting to watch from home. But this show is just so amazing, & warm, & fun, that I watched it, and loved it.

Now that almost all of Bitter Tea has leaked, I'm just even more excited than ever about the new album. This is a fairly typical song from what I've heard of the album—quite poppy, but still with some crazy keyboard action. And backwards-singing.

Listening to this all I can think of is just how much the Manic Street Preachers' Generation Terrorists sounds like Guns 'n' Roses. It's really quite amazing: it's the exact same guitar sound, which I suppose is exactly what the Manics were going for.

I think this may be one of my favorite songs of all time. "She's hurt you again, I can tell—oh, I know that look so well."—you can almost hear a sly grin on Dusty's face.

[1] Not to mention that plane flights just make me so productive—in part, it's the fact that I have my computer, but I don't have a network connection, so I can actually get things done without getting swamped and/or overwhelmed with incoming email.

Plagger (by Tatsuhiko & others) is a fantastic idea. Having developed a bunch of miniature feed-related apps, what I love most about this is that it's essentially the perlbal/qpsmtpd of RSS/Atom feed frameworks.

Plagger (by Tatsuhiko & others) is a fantastic idea. Having developed a bunch of miniature feed-related apps, what I love most about this is that it's essentially the perlbal/qpsmtpd of RSS/Atom feed frameworks.

& the best part: he's recorded a new album, which will be released April 2006 in the UK!

Listen to "Boom Boom Bap", one of the new songs. As with Anomie & Bonhomie, I was at first apprehensive—but just as I love that album, I'm already loving "Boom Boom Bap". April can't arrive soon enough! [1]

[1] Being as how it also brings the new Fiery Furnaces album & the US release of the Ark album.

On Sunday I was watching the Super Bowl, and I was making myself another margarita—you know, to celebrate the Big Game, &c.—& in order to do that I had to open a new bottle of tequila. So I did, and after a lot of tugging, I pulled out the giant cork-like thing from the bottle.

In the process of which, I spilled tequila all over the v-neck undershirt I was wearing.